On Monday 03 March 2008 16:25, Josef Chessor wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:17 PM, John Floren
<slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, do! I'll stand back as the users of the
Lisp Machines, PDP-8,
LINC, IBM 1401, etc. mob you; after the Old Guard has had their turn,
those punk kids with their Altairs and their rock and roll music can
come in and work you over :)
Wait! The Chinese and the abacus get first dibs! =D
Some of us prefer the soroban to the abacus. :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin